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Rabbi Josh Zebberman on Three Ways for Jews to rise above Antisemites
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I'd like to share with you three tips on
how to approach anti-Semitism
anti-semites Jew haters and these three
tips actually come straight from the
Torah straight from the Bible it comes
actually from the very first Passover
seder that we as Jewish people had ever
celebrated in Egypt the night before The
Exodus the night before The Exodus there
was the plague the slaying of the
firstborn and the Jewish people were
commanded to slaughter a Passover Ram to
eat it together as families and there
was a commandment to actually stay home
they're not allowed to leave that night
the slaying of the firstborn of the
Egyptians who were enslaving us was
going to take place they were given fair
warning and our job is to stay home and
there's a specific biblical prohibition
of leaving the home that evening and the
question the commentaries ask is why why
can't we witness the miracle of our
enemies being overthrown why stay home
and I'd like to share with you 3%
perspectives and I think these three
perspectives are actually three
approaches to how we strengthen
ourselves as Jews and approach
anti-Semitism and Jew haters approach
number one is from the abaran why do you
need to stay home that evening because
what is our job this evening the very
first Passover Sater to eat the Passover
Lamb in thanks to God to eat the matah
to eat the mar the bit herbs to discuss
the Passover story at that point they're
living the Passover story are our job is
not to witness the death of our enemies
our job is not to tune into the news and
figure out what exactly is going on we
don't worship death death is necessary
unfortunately because if people are
oppressing us and if people are causing
us death we have a commandment to do
what is necessary but we don't need to
make our Religion Center around it we
don't worship death shut off the news
shut off the phone shut off the
computer be at the Passover seder and
just be totally present living in the
moment because it's at that moment at
that night at the Passover seder that
we're ingesting the matah we're
discussing our story we're internalizing
what it means to be a Jew our story our
history our faith and as it how it
relates to the present we don't need to
know what's going on outside there's a
Biblical commandment stay home
explanation number two I really enjoyed
this one it's by thear Omar it's one of
the commentaries his name is abam
Sabah from Portugal and he explains
what's going to happen if you're going
to be out that night witnessing the
slaying of the firstborn think about it
what's going to happen is Pharaoh's
going to try to find you and say okay
you guys can go free please get out of
here no no we're not doing that we're
going to stay home Pharaoh is not going
to come to you you're going to be in
your home and you're not going to be
free because Pharaoh says you're free
you're going to be free tomorrow in
broad daylight When God says you're free
we're going to achieve on that night
fundamental
Freedom rather than permissive freedom
from our enemies we're not free when our
enemies tell us we're free we're free
because God tells us we're free as Jews
we don't have a right to exist because
Society agrees that we have a right to
exist we have an inherent right to exist
Israel has a right to exist not because
the UN CL claims they have a right to
exist there's a fundamental right to
exist from God and therefore don't be
out of your house stay in your house
because you're not free yet until God
says you're free and I think for as this
relates to us it's so important to
understand that our we don't need to
justify our existence as Jewish people
to haters because it's not them who
gives us permission to be it's God who
gives us permission to be we need to
stay in our homes we need to strengthen
the home and that brings me to the third
explanation by The Who explains that the
Passover offering Passover Ram is
actually an anomaly compared to all
other sacrifices because all other
sacrifices had to have been done on an
altar this is the only time in history
that a sacrifice is not done on an altar
but it's done in the home because this
is the start of the Jewish people and
the foundation the start of the Jewish
people begins at home so the Torah says
stay home don't go out to witness the
slaying of the firstborn be focused on
what's going on on the inside what is
happening in your own home focus on
doing the Passover Mitzvah of eating the
matzah of telling the story of
celebrating who we are of learning about
who we are because as we become a people
The Exodus from Egypt it's at this
moment that we have to strengthen the
inside we have to strengthen the home
and when we do that we become confident
as Jewish people we become proud as
Jewish people and we simply don't need
the validity of Jew haters the validity
of the UN the validity of trolls on
social media the validity of of
brainwashing and desensitized College
professors and brainwashed college
students and prot we just don't care
we're stronger than that because we've
strengthened our identity at the home
this all starts with having a meaningful
Passover later doing the Passover mitzah
eating the moah that's my story and I'm
sticking to it